Lucknow: Over 50 people, including women and children, were injured in Charkhari in Mahoba, 230 km from Lucknow, when the roof and wall of a house collapsed on Wednesday, police said.

The injured were standing on a roof of a house watching Diwali Nritya, the post-Diwali festival, when the roof and a wall collapsed by the weight of the onlookers.

Police teams rescued 50 people from the rubble. Seven people are in critical condition and have been admitted to a medical facility in Jhansi. Mahoba's Superintendent of Police M.D. Karndhar told reporters that the railing of the house belonging to shopkeeper Pradeep Shukla caved in at around 1 pm.